Diary: March weatherings talk and essay work:

~~Palliser meet, Maya talk outline and Movie essay themes.~~

That was quite a weather aft-cast so to speak, but its our reality this morn, though later this week more lambs and sheep will be showing up!

John was busy last Saturday morning configuring a new computer for the family store, so I stayed home. This gave me a chance to round out my Maya study and to compose a narrative outline for my talk.

This outline turned out quite well enabling me next to concentrate on the narrative with its supporting details and illustrations. Of the latter there is plenty, but I have to fit them as the pieces in a puzzle to compose a clear picture as I speak!

Sunday was nice for a walk down to the Palliser, though it was cold enough to have fresh ice crystals forming on the Elbow’s water surface. We had a good crowd at our meeting and a lively interaction over the coffee afterwards.

I offered my condolences to Garda, who had unexpectedly lost her brother about two weeks ago. Losing a sibling at our age is extra difficult as it reminds us of the vulnerability of our own body.

Sunday was nice for a walk down to the Palliser, though it was cold enough to have fresh ice crystals forming on the Elbow’s water surface.

Yesterday was new month calendar day and I had four surprise pictures waiting for me. The frozen cannel - Gracht - in Amsterdam has been replaced by a moat and castle in a pre-spring scene in the North-Brabant province.

The Belgian Brabant province is to the south of the Dutch one. This is a bit like East and West Ukraine today! The Dutch did conquer their Northern portion on the Spanish - Belgian now - back in the sixteenth century.

Sunday evening I cruised some news sites, but more significantly, I composed four ‘theme’ statements for the sections of my essay ‘Our Reality Movie’. These statements explain to the reader the intent of each section, ahead of the more detailed discussion that is to follows.

I may insert these statements under ‘Writings’ below, because they still need some work and it is really the next thing for me to do. It will also give me a chance to share this material with Jack at our monthly coffee this aft.

Writings: Movie essay themes:

~~Editing yesterday’s “Our Reality Movie” essay theme statements.~~

“Our Reality Movie” essay section theme statements:

Fundamentals.

We consider five aspects of the way we experience our world. Starting with the Movie Theatre where we are all engrossed in the movie story, or how we can be engrossed in a task at hand, such a creative process for example.

Then we consider the selective nature of the way we observe our daily environment, seeing what we expect to see, projecting orderly patterns learned from prior observation. In this process we filter out many things that we consider irrelevant making for selective but efficient observation.

Finally we look at the limited capacity of the brain to process all the incoming signals and the need to filter what is not needed building a scene in which we can make decisions from limited choices.

Adaptation.

Emerging early humans learned to build a picture of their daily experience world, limiting themselves to signals that were relevant to their situation. Such an early formed reference framework expanded with time as the ability to predict certain events – phases of the moon – increased.

The traditions that so developed over millennia became what we now call religions or traditions.

These frameworks – traditions – acquired a certain structure that had consistency and provided identity to community and its individuals. New experiences, problems, solutions, rules and rituals were added to the frameworks over time.

The traditions that so developed over millennia became what we now call religions or traditions. Each has a narrative explaining its presence in the world for its members and though these are similar in structure, their contents and narrations differ according to situations.

Modern Situation.

Today each traditional framework1) encounters at least several other frameworks. These often function quite differently ordering daily experience in a manner, causing conflict at times.

Merging all these traditions into one has proven impossible historically as is experienced in global politics today. The solution is to recognise the validity of each tradition, honour its contribution to the whole of the human tradition and negotiate mutual accommodation.

If we don’t stay in charge of the current globalising processes, we will be subject to them and become their victims possibly.

Mosaic Solution.

The present scientific understanding of our own human origins and development can provide fairly value neutral tools in understanding aspects of the traditional narratives, which are held inviolate by their members.

Our global situation requires the use of all such tools, knowledge and experience and apply those, using our ability for conscious deliberation. To not pursue our goal consciously with due diligence, delivers us into the throws of the such unregulated processes as occur today.

Knowing and recognising our own human situation today is one of our obligations as conscious humans. The other is, that we must act on this knowledge to the best of our ability and be prepared to take our lumps. If we don’t stay in charge of the current globalising processes, we will be subject to them and become their victims possibly.

1). Each framework orders the daily experience of its practitioners or members, but will be quite strange to those who come from an other reference system.
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